Adam Newton appears to have filled his office as preceptor with no servility to the capricious fancies of the princely boy.  Desirous, however, of cherishing the generous spirit and playful humour of Henry, his tutor encouraged a freedom of jesting with him, which appears to have been carried at times to a degree of momentary irritability on the side of the tutor, by the keen humour of the boy.  While the royal pupil held his master in equal reverence and affection, the gaiety of his temper sometimes twitched the equability or the gravity of the preceptor.  When Newton, wishing to set an example to the prince in heroic exercises, one day practised the pike, and tossing it with such little skill as to have failed in the attempt, the young prince telling him of his failure, Newton obviously lost his temper, observing, that “to find fault was an evil humour.”  “Master, I take the humour of you.”  “It becomes not a prince,” observed Newton.  “Then,” retorted the young prince, “doth it worse become a prince’s master!” Some of these harmless bickerings are amusing.  When his tutor, playing at shuffle-board with the prince, blamed him for changing so often, and taking up a piece, threw it on the board, and missed his aim, the prince smilingly exclaimed, “Well thrown, master;” on which the tutor, a little vexed, said “he would not strive with a prince at shuffle-board.”  Henry observed, “Yet you gownsmen should be best at such exercises, which are not meet for men who are more stirring.”  The tutor, a little irritated, said, “I am meet for whipping of boys.”  “You vaunt, then,” retorted the prince, “that which a ploughman or cart-driver can do better than you.”  “I can do more,” said the tutor, “for I can govern foolish children.”  On which the prince, who, in his respect for his tutor, did not care to carry the jest farther, rose from the table, and in a low voice to those near him said, “he had need be a wise man that could do that.”  Newton was sometimes severe in his chastisement; for when the prince was playing at goff, and having warned his tutor, who was standing by in conversation, that he was going to strike the ball, and having lifted up the goff-club, some one observing, “Beware, sir, that you hit not Mr. Newton!” the prince drew back the club, but smilingly observed, “Had I done so, I had but paid my debts.”  At another time, when he was amusing himself with the sports of a child, his tutor wishing to draw him to more manly exercises, amongst other things, said to him in good humour, “God send you a wise wife!” “That she may govern you and me!” said the prince.  The tutor observed, that “he had one of his own;” the prince replied, “But mine, if I have one, would govern your wife, and by that means would govern both you and me!” Henry, at this early age, excelled in a quickness of reply, combined with reflection, which marks the precocity of his intellect.  His tutor having laid a wager with the prince that he could not refrain from standing